Category: Reading through the Bible
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Day 281: What Happened to Verse 4? (John 5)
Modern translations skip from John 5:3 to 5:5—what happened to verse 4? Behind this missing line lies a story about ancient manuscripts, Roman healing shrines, and a man waiting beside a pool with no power. In the end, Jesus shows that mercy isn’t earned by speed or strength—it’s received by grace.
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Day 280: Whose Faith Did Jesus See? (Mark 2:3-12)
When Jesus healed the paralytic, He saw their faith—the faith of the friends who carried, climbed, and refused to give up. Maybe your faith can carry someone to Jesus, too.
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Day 279: “The Third Day” Since When? (John 2:1)
When John says the wedding at Cana happened “on the third day,” what third day does he mean? Maybe not a timeline, but a theology — linking creation and re-creation, water and wine, seed and fruit, and pointing ahead to another “third day” when death itself would turn to life.
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Day 278: That Time the Devil Was Kind of Right (Luke 4:9-11)
In Luke 4, the devil quoted Psalm 91 word for word. He was half right—but half right can still be dead wrong. See how Jesus lived the psalm in Nazareth, not through spectacle, but through sovereign deliverance.
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Day 277: Why Was Jesus Baptized? (Luke 3)
Before Jesus preached a single sermon or healed a single person, the Father declared, “You are my beloved Son; with You I am well pleased.” His baptism wasn’t about repentance—it was about revelation.
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Day 276: The Puzzle of the Prophecy (Matthew 2:23)
Matthew 2:23 says, “He shall be called a Nazarene”—but those exact words don’t appear anywhere in the Old Testament. Was Matthew mistaken? Or is there something deeper going on? In this devotional, we explore the puzzle of the Nazarene prophecy and discover how even Jesus’ obscure hometown points to Him as the true Messiah.